Northern Renaissance Art
Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art
• In Depicting the Human Body, Dutch and Flemish Painters, Favored Realism Over the Idealism of the Italian Renaissance.
• The Figures Differed as Well: Italian Renaissance Art Depicted Heroic Male Nudes. Northern Renaissance Art Depicted Prosperous Citizens and Peasants.
• How Does the Art of the Northern Renaissance Reflect The Humanism of the Northern Renaissance?
• How Can One Continue To See the Technical Achievements of the Italian Renaissance?
Realism
Bruegel’s Hunters In the Snow (1565)
Bruegel’s The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
How Can One See the Characteristics of the Northern Renaissance in This Painting?
Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel
Albrecht Durer
• Van Eyck and Bruegel were from the Low Countries; what is today the Netherlands and Belgium.
• Durer (1471-1528) was from Germany. He is considered to be the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. He is also known as the “Leonardo of the North” for his diversity of interests. He was fascinated with nature. He made many woodcuts for printmaking. He was also influenced by Italian art.
• This is a self-portrait of Durer (1500).
• How does it reflect the values of the Northern Renaissance?
Durer’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Where are the values of the period?
